Inveigh vs Decry - What's the difference?
inveigh | decry |
* 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
* 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
* 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
* 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
(obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
* c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
To denounce as harmful.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:
To blame for ills.
As verbs the difference between inveigh and decry
is that inveigh is while decry is to denounce as harmful.inveigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
- Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
- Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
- After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
- He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.
Derived terms
* inveigher * inveighingdecry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
- While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.